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What is "repair and deduct"?
Can a tenant ever terminate their legal obligations of a lease during its term?
Who is a landlord?
Who is a roommate?
What is a lease or rental agreement?
I have been paying rent on a home owned by my mom for the last 16 months. There is no rental agreement between us. Now she wants to evict me and has threaten to bring the marshalls if I don’t remove myself and belongings in 1.5 months. Can she do this?
We signed a year’s lease on a rental unit for our college-bound son, with the understanding that his roommates would pay their share of the rent. One roommate left without paying his third of the rent. The landlord has filed eviction papers and we are expected to pay the unpaid rent. How can we get out of this lease?
I am a long-time (15-year) renter in an apartment house. There have been yearly increases over the years but this year the owner wants a whooping 25% increase! Can this happen?
Can a tenant refuse to let an agent onto property after receiving 24 hours notice? The lease does not cover the issue.
The signout sheet given to me by the manager of our apartments following a walkthrough indicated everything was fine except for dusty blinds. The landlord, however, now wants to charge for dusty blinds and pet odor. There was no mention in the walkthrough or on the signout sheet of foul pet odors. Can they do this?
Who is a tenant?
Who is a subtenant?
What can happen in an "unlawful detainer (eviction) action"?
If a tenant has not been around for over 6 months and not paid any rent, can I clean out the apartment and re-rent it?
What happens to the security deposit at the end of the lease?
With the owner's permission, I've lived in a trailer on his ranch property for over 25 years. Do I now own the land on which the trailer sits? What's the law on squatter's rights?

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